A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1987)

Very Random & Very Funny

Every generation has a pair. We had Lano & Woodley (1990s), and now Hamish & Andy (2000s). And the Brits had Fry & Laurie (1980s).

The sketches are very funny and very random. Music, drag queens, impossible tongue twisters, play-within-a-play, and random outbursts from a man in the audience claiming that they stole his sketch all flow together very nicely alongside random comments from patrol police, random ladies, a priest and a wine dealer.

Some of the jokes are very specific and us non-Brits & post-cold war era kids just don't get it, but most of the time you do find yourself laughing with the studio audience no matter how inappropriate the joke. They're not allowed to swear (ass sketch aside) so they make up for it by having Stephen Fry randomly punching out Hugh Laurie every once in a while.

Amazing stuff, considering that both Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie were experiencing severe depression during the time that they were making the later seasons of the series.

Most of the sketches are still hilarious on the tenth viewing.